PRODUCE FREIGHTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 3

PRODUCE FREIGHTS.

COMPETITION needed REDUCTION OF COSTS. » (Special to the "Guardian.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Sheepowners' Union last evening the president (Mr E. Hay) recalled that a shipping company had recently offered to carry Now Zealand meat or a portion of. it at much reduced' freight. This was a difficult problem that would have to be dealt with by the Meat Board. Speaking generally, he was of the opinion, that sound and healthy competition in shipping should be encouraged with a view to a reduction in freights. Freight was a big question in New Zealand, both overseas and local. The speaker tnought that both_.the overseas companies and the local ones had been miserably weak in their attempts to reduce their costs, mainly for the reason thou they have always been able to pass these costs on .to those who paid the freights. They deserved 1 now to have competition with a view to compelling, them to reduce freight. "I might sav that these high freights ultimately come back with a boomerang effect on. the primary producers," Mr Hay concluded.